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CQ with machine embroidery

Find me in the sewing room today. 
I'm testing a technique with my embroidery machine today.

The choice technique requires a muslin foundation block fused with stabilizer for embroidery stitching.
I plan to stitch a new & recent design purchased.

This technique is Crazy Quilting in a Hexagon block, with machine-stitched designs that I recently grabbed over at Molly Mine.com .

I've been eyeballing these wonderful designs for a while and decided to purchase one of her wonderful machine embroidery files to try out.
Both my eyes & desires mighty hungry to try the technique out. I adore CQ blocks & her Embroidery designs.Why what more could a gal ask for! Not only are the designs a Crazy Quilting block layout, also hr designs are combined of machine embroidery to stitch, and resulting in a hexagon! Wow ! Thank you...  Molly Mine.com  !!!

If you wish to hop over and check out her designs, I encourage you to do so with the provided link.

Molly Mine.com .

In the meantime, my experiment is coming together. I selected a variety of scraps to sew on my ready-made foundation blocks that I had on hand. And went right to testing with a variety of threads and my fabric scraps. As the machine worked the stitches, I'm finding how much this pattern has potential along with a wide variety of choices. So far this is the results, and do think more is to come.

 I'm having so much fun with this technique! 
Good stitching! Pat

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